Configuring masculinity in theory and literary practice
Gedrukt boek
Critical survey of current developments in masculinity studies combined with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysed are texts by the authors Thomas Malory, William Shakespeare, Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Hardy, John Osborne, John Braine, Allan Sillitoe, Ian McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Will Self and Hanif Kureishi.